BOOM: Beyond Only One Modality KIT's Multimodal Multilingual Lecture Companion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02817v1
• Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:27:26 GMT
• Title: BOOM: Beyond Only One Modality KIT's Multimodal Multilingual Lecture Companion
• Authors: Sai Koneru, Fabian Retkowski, Christian Huber, Lukas Hilgert, Seymanur Akti, Enes Yavuz Ugan, Alexander Waibel, Jan Niehues,
• Abstract summary: We present textbfBOOM, a multilingual lecture companion that jointly translates lecture audio and slides to produce synchronized outputs across three modalities.<n>Our experiments demonstrate that slide-aware transcripts also yield cascading benefits for downstream tasks such as summarization and question answering.
• Score: 56.41649972542962
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The globalization of education and rapid growth of online learning have made localizing educational content a critical challenge. Lecture materials are inherently multimodal, combining spoken audio with visual slides, which requires systems capable of processing multiple input modalities. To provide an accessible and complete learning experience, translations must preserve all modalities: text for reading, slides for visual understanding, and speech for auditory learning. We present \textbf{BOOM}, a multimodal multilingual lecture companion that jointly translates lecture audio and slides to produce synchronized outputs across three modalities: translated text, localized slides with preserved visual elements, and synthesized speech. This end-to-end approach enables students to access lectures in their native language while aiming to preserve the original content in its entirety. Our experiments demonstrate that slide-aware transcripts also yield cascading benefits for downstream tasks such as summarization and question answering. We release our Slide Translation code at https://github.com/saikoneru/image-translator and integrate it in Lecture Translator at https://gitlab.kit.edu/kit/isl-ai4lt/lt-middleware/ltpipeline}\footnote{All released code and models are licensed under the MIT License.

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